gulag of our times. when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared. about this any girl who survived a u.s. drone attack in washington explains to the u.s. congress our home was destroyed and her grandmother was killed. also this week angered by n.s.a. spying and he you delegation fails to get explanations from u.s. officials wald while germany turns to edward snowden to get answers about tapping out chancellor merkel's phone. goes to brazil germany firearms and. you know the course in the states is going to repeat itself continuously we are from n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who says u.s. intelligence will continue to harvest data despite outrage from the public and its

allies. and behind the barbed wire are to report from inside guantanamo prison for over a dozen detainees are still on hunger strike in a bitter protest over their indefinite detention and mistreatment. a warm welcome to the weekly this sunday here in r t with me and he said now i good to have you with us we have a look back at the week's top stories plus all the latest news first a pakistani family who lost their grandmother in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress or she's going to you can without the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time

actual victims of the worst drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect the sudden change of heart even though hart was with these drone victims were appealing on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life

around here. he wished his children too would be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed that any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house is talking to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant these to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand population of. she losing in

a concentration camp where they're being picked on this is off work kind of slow to be shown how long before someone's driving the mess you leave and that this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a short chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will pick notice in washington i'm going to check out. and the u.s. claims few civilians have been killed by the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been launched over the past decade local reports however suggest at least nine hundred innocent people including up to two hundred children have been killed documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the talk the story of the raymond family and his inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't

understand the real consequence of using drones people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading that the drones were killing only high value targets represented an imminent threat it doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which is part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter as important is that you know the family is speaking to all kinds of americans people who have a mother will have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and droning we have to change all of our. and the drone campaign in pakistan may have

thwarted a chance for peace a u.s. strike killed the taliban leader in pakistan just as the government was prepared to start negotiations the details later in the program. in other news a group of diplomats who traveled to washington this week seeking explanations about the n.s.a. spying activities left without answers the m.e.p. delegation complained the u.s. provided no clarification over each dropping on world leaders and whether the white house had any knowledge of it they described america's response as feeble and warned it could aggravate relations berlin specifically has been angered by the tapping of chancellor angela merkel's phone germany is considering asking the man behind all these leaks edward snowden to help explain what happened in fact the german green pea met the whistleblower in moscow to ask him to give evidence to part of it. he would be done i think it's

important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison you would like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure you could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including the n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always been true for they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. with the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretary of state john kerry pointed a finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. there is no course

for the. earth so that it is the that it is the lot of the outer. circle is there that is their record so carry referring there to spying by auto auto pilot while the head of the n.s.a. said the contrary it's policy makers not the intelligence services to select targets well journalism glenn greenwald who's been releasing snowden's leaks says despite the scandal the n.s.a. will not scale back its activities. to brazil germany and france. and the speed of course in the united states is going to repeat itself continuously for the next several weeks or months and almost every country around the world to be very clear objective of you is to not just go out grow this but to keep it for as long as they can and so the big time target if you're

a citizen of spain or anyone else you learn everything you can doing in terms of if you. had to r.t. dot com for more reaction and opinion on n.s.a. leaks including an interview with any christian specialist talks about his mission to resist spying and bring the privacy back. after eight months over a dozen guantanamo bay detainees remain on hunger strike in protest at their indefinite detention and the use of torture the inmates are being force fed in a brutal procedure that the u.s. military continues to defend our she's an associate turk unless sent this report from inside the prison. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous president no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own autumn torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and

they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here to t.f. you know we have the court system determine that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water in there it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place and you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house is a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and

even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is a agent who will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this they will. describe which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients have experienced at one time or they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the

torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients have had the civilian world that said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishel is are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me requested climbed the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied. to the chair that is shackled our legs to the ground. strap across forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them

you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or end their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when

officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be rewarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and. cuba. still ahead for you this hour a toxic path to disarmament the syrian government dismantles a local weapons production facilities but the whole process hangs in the balance some rebel groups refuse to take part in the process.

of. economic down in the final. days but the deal and the rest look like it's going to be taking leave every week. to see more than four hundred cities around the globe are hosting mass rallies for syria justice freedom. followed million mask march on our t.v. and our t.v. dot com.

there are thirty eight live from moscow this week syria met the first ambitious deadline on its past a chemical disarmament that has successfully dismantled the facilities used to produce toxic weapons but the tough task of eliminating the existing stockpiles lays ahead made harder by the war that continues to rage parties polls they are reports now from damascus. dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention the brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is

a very complicated the process complications fueled by so-called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate for inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blamed the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until now. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the group still them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war story with syria actually stop producing chemical weapons in one

thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed off two rockets with sarin gas were fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible are still at large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. some opposition groups stand accused of trying to hamper the russia u.s. brokered disarmament process and many analysts are mine are wanting believes the syrian government is happy to get rid of its chemical weapons because it removes an excuse for outside intervention there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels

being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has for some time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to rid them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. we've always got more stories waiting for you on our website including facing up to reality the operator of japan's crippled from the sema nuclear plant is forced to turn to the u.s. for help in cleaning up the dangerous facility for more details that are to dot com

over closely following the situation in and around the plant. plus giant party boats the secret behind google's floating structures in san francisco bay is revealed the four story high barges will travel up and down america's coastline promoting the new wearable google glasses details head to our web site. the peace process in pakistan has been do you after a u.s. drone strike killed the country's taliban leader this week it happened just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group of pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end violence and a local expert told us he believes it's the pakistani people who will pay the price the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only back and he had spoken to president obama ticket him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made

a request for the drone attacks to stop because we've got. rid of that precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so i knew what he was going to sell for it is going to be the people of pakistan not the u.s. the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any of thought of doing. a french government proposed eco tax has hit a nerve with the public as thousands hit the streets calling for it to be scrapped immediately. the french region of the tiny has been rocked by protests which turn violent police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse angry crowds hurling rocks and bottles in response eco tax imposes levies on trucks weighing more than three and a half tons has been suspended amid concerns that it could drive companies out of business. a man suspected of carrying out

a gun attack at los angeles international airport has been tarnished with murder prosecutors say the death penalty could be sought for paul c.n.c. a stronger terminal on friday killed a security guard and wounded several others the airport is operating normally again after more than a thousand flights were delayed or canceled. in northern yemen four days of conflict between rival muslim clowns have killed fifty five people that's according to a spokesman of one of the groups earlier in the week she rebels attacked the town of demolished which is held by their rivals the country's army said a ceasefire came into effect friday yet bloodshed. on a visit to egypt u.s. secretary of state said america will continue to provide assistance to fight terrorism the aid had been cut in the wake of egypt's military crackdown on the muslim brotherhood one point three billion dollars in cash and the delivery of u.s.

made tanks fighter jets and attack helicopters were suspended the move was condemned by car over said it would look elsewhere help. this week italy saw hundreds had the streets to demand better social housing conditions but for thousands of migrants in the country the street is the only home they have and even the lucky few who are provided with accommodation often regret moving to italy in search of a better life or to found out. some call it a city within a city others a refugee ghetto it's like a means to an african refugees from four african countries over twelve hundred people crammed inside a former university building in rome now known as palace meeting. here. weren't allowed to film inside the rooms but dr treating the refugees agreed to describe the conditions they live but i think. there are thirty five tabs and

thirty five showers and eighty percent of them need to be repaired the beds are all seen in very bad condition actually a lot of people sleep in the car thousands of refugees have been flocking to italy mainly across the mediterranean in search of a better life but the country's only economic problems including the worst recession since the second world war provide very little opportunity at the same time. obliges all refugees to stay in the country where they receive asylum those who manage to avoid registration go further north as illegals but those who don't won't cause shelters are running out of space for all the newcomers without a job or even a place to sleep where do you go for the majority it's the train stations the meeting point for possible work or some cash during the day and makeshift shelter at night which is one of the best song sometimes immigrants from different countries fight each other like the albanians and those from bangladesh for example

don't want this area the there are a lot of them here are various nationalities at first they came from southern countries now also from eastern once the whole region is full of immigrants. polish or it is in gadget very strong activity but live along well also you'll be. solve this problem the e.u. has pledged to give an additional thirty million euros for italy to build more shelters for the refugees but it's unlikely this will help create new jobs or ease the flow of immigrants altogether because it's going off r.t. road. well coming up we've got a look at the world of business in venture capital but before we go here's some of this week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia. it's less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi the olympic flame is continuing at fan base this rally it's already been to the north pole and in

just a few days it will glass dome for the international space station torch is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north don't forget it r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the of them pic marathon. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used to the official emails of discussion scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in

a politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the word blanket because they gave the native americans disease still blankets to kill them and they block their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see a lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen of the united states join. but the surest fire.

thank you. for the welcome to the capitol this week the british prime minister david cameron is being told to think outside of the box and out part of his glasses i should say and order to drum up some much needed cash for the country details in just a minute on that what was also the first bitcoin eighty seven when the law is the story will be discussed in the implications of that could be used to comment in how the best image is shown thomas he's poised to the business press to tell us what it's been up to the ball by gave us your bit of the boost this week it's also supposed to come with that stuff to talk about mr cameron. so he's hoping to attract muslim money by becoming the first country to issue an exam bond outside of the muslim wild the u.k. hopes to offer a two hundred million pound islam friendly bond known as a cook as early as next it it will conform to the law which bans interest and

gambling now the prime minister is also planning to launch a new index boyko explains exactly why mr cameron is so we get to this part of the world the british muslims contribute at least thirty billion pounds to the economy here while u.k. banks offer more islamic services than in any other western country in fact islamic funding has propped up some of the capital's largest developments including the shot on the olympic village but critics say the welcoming approach doesn't go beyond investment in british politicians have in the past rejected proposals to recognise shari'a law or in certain areas with large muslim populations while the recent debate in parliament centered on whether or not to penalize local shari'a courts which help british muslims result family issues and when a small group of locals try to impose sharia law in london's east end the response .